Ramblings-incomplete nasty quick video

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Great simple cure ! Cheers 👍

[@TangentJim]

Benno - Those shafts are respectable sizes . I'm impressed with you projects . Your equiptment is not equal to the task . But you are resourceful enough to get it done . Two Thumbs up . --- Jim

[@OgiveBC]

@@TangentJim Thank you. Is this a “not the size” sort of thing or the “only the poor carpenter blames his tools”? I have written Santa several years now asking for a bigger lathe…..

[@hilltopmachineworks2131]

Handy little universal wrench.

[@alansawyer1219]

People don't talk about steady rests because they are obsessed with the spindle bore of a lathe. They buy oversize lathes that allow them to shove 120mm shafts through the headstock. Unfortunately they don't reallise they loose control of the shaft. The other issue is the lathe is then, generally to big for their more typical work so it sits there underutilized taking up capital and consuming opex. Thanks for sharing.

[@kirkpennock2997]

What do you do when you need to turn hot rolled or not round and you need to cut it round for the steady rest, but you need the steady rest to cut it?

[@OgiveBC]

@@kirkpennock2997 great question I’ll make a short video to explain. Usually I can get a live center at the far end, which has some issues related to it. The other choice is to put a sleeve or spider over the material to give the steady a smooth place to run.